Bad disk in FLARE partition

Question

Need some help.

I have a CX300 with one MS Exchange server attached. En0 Disk 2 has gone bad and I am concerned for my email system since its stored on the CX300. I want to be proactive here and I have backups so I'm not TOO worried.

I have a CX3-40 also, but I was planning on using it for when I migrate to Ex 2007 this summer.

Would it be best to hook up one of my HBA's to the CX3-40 and bind a LUN, then change the DB & logs location in Exchange to the new LUN?

Or is there a faster way to copy/restore the data from one array to another?

Or should I seek to just replace the drive that's faulted? (not sure how to do FLARE drives) Is that easy?

dynamox · Answer

call EMC, if your system is under support contract they will dispatch a CE with a replacement drive. You do have hotspares configured ? Look in Navisphere under 'Disk Summary', under 'Hot Spare Replacing' column ..make sure there is a hotspare drive that took over for the failed one.

DeaconZ28-2015 · Answer

Its not under support anymore.Anyway, I moved the data to the other Clariion and then swapped disk 2 with disk 9 and now they both are green.And yes, I had a hotspare.

dynamox · Answer

are you running production applications on this array ?

DeaconZ28-2015 · Answer

Not after this past weekend.

dynamox · Answer

hahaha ..right on

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Bad disk in FLARE partition

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